60 Names for Sugar

Sugar by any other name.. is just as sweet!

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You may be surprised to learn that sugar has at least 60 different names.

Most all processed foods have some form of sugar in them.  Of course, we know that sugar is added to standard sweets, but it’s also frequently added to spices and other savory products including tomato sauces.

Perhaps the most shocking example of discovering sugar where I never expected it to be was in a salt product.  The package read “51% sodium” and “49% dextrose”.  That means there was almost exactly the same amount of sugar in the product as there was salt.  But as long as the product is at least 51% sodium, the F.D.A. allows the product to be called “Salt” instead of “Sugar”.  Suddenly, rumors of fast-food restaurant chains using sugar in their salt doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

Refined and processed sugars of all kinds are considered by many experts to be the biggest contributors to obesity and poor health in the United States.

Hopefully the list below will help you navigate when it comes to making healthy choices down the grocery store aisle.  Good health to you!

60 Names for Sugar

• Agave Nectar
• Amasake
• Apple Sugar
• Banana Sugar
• Barbados Sugar
• Barley Malt
• Beet Sugar
• Black Strap Molasses
• Brown Sugar
• Buttered Syrup
• Cane Juice Crystals
• Cane Sugar
• Caramel
• Carbitol
• Corn Syrup
• Corn Syrup solids
• Confectioner’s Sugar
• Carob Syrup
• Castor Sugar
• Date Sugar
• Demerara Sugar
• Dextran
• Dextrose
• Diastatic Malt
• Diatase
• Ethyl Maltol
• Fructose
• Fruit Juice
• Fruit Juice Concentrate
• Galactose
• Glucose
• Glucose Solids
• Golden Sugar
• Golden Syrup
• Grape Sugar
• High-Fructose Corn Syrup
• Honey
• Icing Sugar
• Invert Sugar
• Locust Bean Gum
• Lactose
• Maltodextrin
• Maltose
• Malt Syrup
• Mannose
• Maple Syrup
• Molasses
• Muscovado Sugar
• Panocha
• Raw Sugar
• Refiner’s Syrup
• Rice Syrup
• Sorbitol
• Sorghum Syrup
• Sucrose
• Sugar
• Treacle
• Turbinado Sugar
• Yellow Sugar
• Xanthan Gum